Alternative Economies Conference

Overthrowing the current economic system has been a core mobilizer in revolutionary discourse against the status quo, but how does that happen? What are the overlaps of patriarchy and capitalism? What type of labor is valued under the current economy? How does it translate in the practice of our organizing for social and feminist justice? How can we think of gender and class disparities among queer bodies? 

At the Alternative Economies Conference, we begin to answer these questions and others. In this conference, which is an extension of Kohl’s summer 2019 issue, we discuss various topics including: labour and migrant domestic work, movement-building and access to resources, the economies of medical patriarchy, and feminist organizing around economic justice.

Join us on June 21-22, 2019 at Mansion Beirut for Kohl's Alternative Economies Conference.  

For more questions, email us at: conferences@kohljournal.press

Kohl is the main publication of Intersectional Knowledge Publishers (IKP).
This conference is in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Middle East Office, Beirut.

Friday: Laying Ground
 

10-10:30
Opening session

10:30-12
Theorizing Alternative Economies
Speakers: Shereen Abouelnaga, Dana Dawud, Menna Agha, Marta Music

12:15-13:45
Critiquing Neoliberal Policies and Norms
Speakers: Saada Allaw, Farah Al Shami, Viviane Akiki, Muneira Hoballah

13:45-14:45
Lunch by Mariam’s Kitchen

14:45-16:15
Practicing Dissent through Art, Activism, and Urbanism
Speakers: Azza Zein, Farah Baba, Jana Nakhal, Mirella Salameh

16:30-18
Building Movements and Access to Resources (roundtable discussion)
Speakers: A Project, Knowledge Workshop, Rahel Zegeye, Naya Rajab, Felogene Anumo

20-22
An evening with Sidewalk Beirut on Alternative Economies at Aspasia 

Saturday: Shifting Intersections
 

10-11:30
Labour and Migrant Domestic Work
Speakers: Julia, Delphine, Yasmine Kherfi, Gabriela Barcelos

11:45-13:15
The Economies of Medical Patriarchy
Speakers: Hiba Abbani, Rola Yasmine, Nayla Doughane, Hanan Awada

13:15-14:15
Lunch by Mariam’s Kitchen

14:15-15:45
Roots in Rurality, Environment, and Land
Speakers: May Makki, Ala’a Shehabi & Ana Tomicic, Meriam Mabrouk

16-17:30
Feminist Organizing around Economic Justice (discussion)
Speakers: Dammeh, Cecile Khoury (Feminist Club at AUB)

17:30-18
Closing remarks